The goal is to provide simple scripts to install an amd64 Debian installation (default: buster) in qemu image from an install with PXE and a preseed.
$ apt install qemu-utils qemu-system-x86 qemu-kvm curl python3
- The
build_qemu_debian_image.sh <distro_name>script will create a temporary directory and generate password - Create a Simple webserver to serve the
preseed.cfgfile (not need to tftp) - Download
netboot.tar.gzfrom Debian repo - Create the pxe configuration
- Create the qemu image
- Boot using the qemu image, pxe and preseed
boot.sh <distro_name> will boot on the newly created image.
To use a different version of Debian, update the preseed.cfg configuration:
d-i mirror/suite string buster
This is a fork from to make it work on Debian:
- https://sigmaris.info/blog/2019/04/automating-debian-install-qemu/
- https://gist.github.com/sigmaris/dc1883f782d1ff5d74252bebf852ec50
If you get the following error:
No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between the
kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel version available
in the archive.
It is caused by a mismatch between the kernel used in the installer and the package not available on the repository. Use https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/ instead.